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5 Ways to Spot Scams in Your Job Search

Looking for a job can be a nuisance, and life can get so hectic sometimes that many people end up relying on online job search engines. You apply to about 10-15 jobs a day, you’re tired from whatever...

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3 Ways You Can Improve Your Twitter Job Search

Not only is using Twitter a good way to find employment opportunities, but it’s also a good way to network with colleagues and build a better online presence. Since Twitter has a total of 500 million...

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How Meditation Can Help Your Job Search

There are several things you can’t control when you’re on the job search, especially today. Jobs are limited, the way you look for jobs has changed, and you never truly know why employer X decided to...

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Where to Buy That Job Interview Outfit

You’ve been waiting for this moment for a long time. You’ve spent infinite hours applying to every job possible. You’ve told all your family and friends you’re looking for work. You’ve worked the...

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Passion vs. Hobby: Which One is Better for Your Career?

As someone who’s decided to follow a career in journalism I am often asked: why do you want to be journalist? The answer for me is simple – because I want to pursue my passion: writing about the things...

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Signs Your Interviewer Isn’t Going To Hire You

Interviews can be both exciting and nerve-wracking at the same time. On the one hand, you are thinking “Yes! Finally, someone wants to interview me!” And on the other hand, you’re nervous about...

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3 Things To Do After An Interview

If you’ve been lucky enough to land an interview and survived it, you know what I’m going to talk about: the waiting game. We’ve all had to endure this at some point in our job seeking careers. We...

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3 Ways To Advance Your Skills

These days, it’s all too common for job seekers to take a job that isn’t in their industry. The lack of jobs and ever increasing competitive job market certainly don’t help, and you’ve got bills to...

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Poll: If You’re Currently Employed, How Did You Hear About Your Job?

Oftentimes, we hear about what not to do in an interview or reasons why you didn’t get hired, but what if you did get hired? In my experience, job boards have never really helped. My first job was at a...

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I Graduated, Now What? 4 Tips For New Job Seekers

What to do after graduating college? Look for a job seems like the obvious answer. But how should a college graduate go about looking for work these days? Things certainly have changed and it’s tough...

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Poll: Do You Use Social Media In Your Job Search?

According to this this article, social media plays a huge role in today’s job search. Recent graduates  “will meet a job market in which 89 percent of companies recruit at least some of their employees...

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Why Keeping A Job Is Similar To Keeping A Marriage

If you’ve ever been in any type of serious relationship, you know it takes a lot of work to keep a happy relationship – and even more so in marriage. If both parties aren’t content in the relationship,...

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Poll: What Makes You Want To Quit A Job?

Every one of us, for one reason or another, has thought about leaving our job at some point in our lives. We feel underappreciated, underpaid, and even overwhelmed. Several of us have felt this way,...

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3 Good Reasons To Spend More Time On Your Cover Letter

We’ve all, in some way, made the mistake of not giving our cover letters the attention they deserve. Some of us tend to regurgitate the information in our resume onto the cover letter. While it’s okay...

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Poll: If You’re Employed, When Do You Look For Jobs?

Due to the lagging economy, we often hear about the unemployed and their struggle to find a job. If you’re employed, you probably consider yourself lucky and try to stay put until something better...

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Why It’s Important To Stay Busy When You’re Unemployed

If there’s one thing I’ve noticed about being unemployed it’s that it gets dull really fast. Though I’m currently employed, it wasn’t always that way. I had three solid months of unemployment before I...

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Why Starting A Blog Could Help Your Job Search

We’ve all heard about how starting a blog can benefit writers who are looking to publish their work, but what if you’re not a writer? Could blogging still benefit you? In what ways? Blogging is more...

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Poll: How Far Will You Commute For A Job?

According to an article published by USA Today Travel, the lagging economy has driven people to go the extra mile (literally) for their jobs. Some go as far as 700 miles! As someone who has about an...

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How To Apply Social Media Skills To Face-To-Face Networking

Picture this: it’s the first day of college and you don’t know anyone in class. The professor splits the students up into groups and gets you and your classmates to do some ice breaker exercises. You...

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Poll: What Will You Change About Your Job Search This Year?

We’re done with the first month of the new year and, like many people, we’ve started looking for work. Some of us might have even made it a New Year’s resolution to find a job (or find a better job)....

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